Intel Processor Technologies

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View demos on Intel® technologies to help you better understand the hardware and software Intel develops. Touching on all aspects of the hardware and software ecosystem, Intel creates innovative products that are standards-based, performance-driven, and with new levels of energy efficiency.

Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology):

Today's Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology)¹ delivers thread-level parallelism on each processor resulting in more efficient use of processor resources—higher processing throughput—and improved performance on the multi-threaded software of today and tomorrow.

An Intel® processor and chipset combined with an OS and BIOS supporting Intel® HT Technology allows you to:

Run demanding desktop applications simultaneously while maintaining system responsiveness
Keep systems more secure, efficient, and manageable while minimizing impact on productivity
Provide headroom for future business growth and new solution capabilities

Enabling better graphics

Intel HT Technology helps multimedia enthusiasts create, edit, and encode graphically intensive files while running background applications such as virus protection software without compromise to performance.

Improving business efficiency

With Intel HT Technology, multi-threaded software applications can execute threads in parallel within each processor core. When Intel HT Technology and Intel® Turbo Boost Technology are combined in processors based on Intel® Microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem, intelligent server processors deliver better performance by adapting to the workload and automatically disabling inactive cores and increasing processor frequency on remaining cores to get the tasks done quicker.

With Intel HT Technology, businesses can:

Improve business productivity by doing more simultaneously without slowing down
Provide faster response times for Internet and e-commerce applications, enhancing customer experiences
Increase the number of transactions that can be processed simultaneously
Utilize existing 32-bit applications technologies while maintaining 64-bit future readiness

-- Watch Demo how Hyper-Threading is achieved

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology

Automatically allowing processor cores to run faster than the base operating frequency if it's operating below power, current, and temperature specification limits.

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Intel® Multi-Core Technology

Intel designed several processor technologies that enable parallel processing when running multi-threaded applications or multiple applications simultaneously.

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Intel® Smart Cache

Intel® Smart Cache increases the probability that each execution core can access data from the faster, more efficient cache subsystem.

More features of Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture

Front Side Bus

Contributing to overall system performance, a faster front side bus can increase performance and responsiveness by transferring data faster between the processor, system memory, and graphics.

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Clock Speed

Faster clock speeds enable a processor to execute instructions more quickly, increasing application performance.

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Intel® QuickPath Technology

Intel® QuickPath Technology releases the full potential of next-generation Intel® micro-architecture accelerating data movement throughout the system.

Intel® Virtualization Technology

Hardware-assisted Intel® Virtualization Technology¹ allows you to better take advantage of software-based virtualization technologies and to run multiple separate, tamper-resistant environments on a single PC.

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Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology provides performance when you need it and reduces power when you don't.

Intel® HD Boost

Next-generation Intel® HD Boost adds 47 new SSE4 instructions designed to dramatically accelerate targeted multimedia tasks and quickly perform complex operations across multiple data elements at once.²

HD Boost performance benchmarks

Intel® 64 Architecture

Intel® 64 Architecture³ enables 64-bit performance for large-scale, compute-intensive applications by allowing the PC to exceed the 4GB RAM limit, improving performance.

Integrated Memory Controller

Integrated Memory Controllers are a key component of next-generation Intel® micro architecture and Intel® system architecture. These low-latency memory controllers increase the number of paths to system memory multiplying total bandwidth by up to two times over previous generation systems.